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		<title><![CDATA[Can College Teach You to Sell?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an era of recession and increasingly better-educated customers,  some sales professionals say on-the-job sales training doesn't cut it  anymore.   Training the Next Generation of Sales Reps    Advocates for college sales programs say that sales  departments face a problem much larger than...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Market in a Downturn]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Quelch, one of the best-known academic minds in marketing, talks to BNET about the two types of luxury consumers ("must-haves" and "wannabes") and how to appeal to both in a recession.      	You&#8217;ve said there are two types of luxury consumers. What are  they?...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Accelerate Business Performance]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie Thomas, CEO of ValueVision Associates, says the first step to accelerating business performance is diagnosing the problem. In many cases, organizations are not winning enough business, not having enough business in the pipeline or creating deals that are too small.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:10:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Forecasting in Tough Times]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Orumchian, founder and CEO of Right90, says that during these slow times, he's seeing many companies do a "bottom-up scrubbing" of their sales pipeline. They want to make sure that what they have there is real and that their forecasts are accurate. They are realizing that long term plans...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 09:22:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Aligning Sales with Marketing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chip Terry, VP & General Manager of Sales Intelligence at Zoom Info, explains that by understanding who your customers are and what segment you're going after, marketing and sales can focus their efforts to be more useful to each other. Too often, he says, each department feels ignored by the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:50:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LucidEra on How to Boost Sales Via Analytics]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Rudin, Founder of LucidEra, defines his company's success and explains how they help sales managers gather and process information through analytics.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:16:27 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Home Depot: Back to Basics]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Depot got rid of underperforming assets and redirected  resources into what had long been neglected — its customers.    	      The Move: Home Depot got rid of underperforming  assets and redirected resources into what had long been neglected &#8212; ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Benchmark for Managing World's Largest Data Archive ... Autonomy Corporation has announced that its on-demand archival solution has reached "a new data processing benchmark", maintaining its position of managing the world's largest data archive. The Digital Safe solution is said to be securely managing 7.1 petabytes of e-mail, documents...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Right Way to Manage Unprofitable Customers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[              Some of your customers aren't paying their bills. Others are so high-maintenance that the cost of serving them is eroding your profits. What to do? For many companies, the answer is simple: Show them the door....]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jervis B. Webb Co.: Conveying change]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5323/is_200706/ai_n21289212]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When Susan Webb took over as the president and CEO of the Jervis B. Webb Co. four years ago, the state of the company was kind of like an old Johnny Carson monologue bit from "The Tonight Show,": * "Jervis B. Webb was really decentralized." * "How decentralized was it?"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Speech by Anders Moberg, President and CEO at Ahold's Annual General Meeting]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 3, 2007  Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for coming today. As you will all know by now, this is the last time I will address you at Ahold's Annual General Meeting as President and CEO. My four years with Ahold have been challenging...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Focus On: Competitor Analysis — Turning Data to Insight]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Competitor analysis CA has developed from a simple emphasis on gathering data about competitors, to a much greater in-depth analysis of customers' strategies and actions. ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:53:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Newfoundland Power Reports on Third Quarter]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200610/ai_n16797101]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Newfoundland Power Inc.(TSX: FTS) today released its 2006 third quarter results.  Earnings for the third quarter of 2006 were $2.6 million compared to $3.4 million for the same quarter in 2005. The decrease was primarily due to higher purchased power costs, partially offset by an increase in earnings due...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[VoIP, Inc. Features VoiceOne&#153; Technology and Services at CompTel PLUS Spring Convention & Expo Exhibit #304 March 19-22 in San Diego; CTO Shawn Lewis to Deliver Keynote Presentation at Profitability Assurance Conference Immediately Following Comp]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- VoIP, Inc., (OTCBB:VOII), a leading provider of Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP communications solutions for service providers, resellers and consumers worldwide, announced today that it will exhibit at the COMPTEL PLUS Spring 2006 Convention & Expo, which runs March 19-22 in San Diego. In addition, VoIP,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Group Banco Espirito Santo First Half 2004 Results -Unaudited-]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_July_27/ai_n6125122]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LISBON -- Banco Espirito Santo (BES; Bloomberg BESNN PL; Reuters BESN.IN) today announced its first half 2004 results.  HIGHLIGHTS  --Net income for the first semester of 2004 reached euro 131.8 million, an increase of 14.3% (19.8% on a comparable basis), corresponding to annualized Return on Equity ROE of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Espirito Santo Financial Group S.A. Announces the 2004 Half Year Results for Its Subsidiary Banco Espirito Santo -Unaudited-]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_July_27/ai_n6125125]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LUXEMBOURG & PORTUGAL -- Espirito Santo Financial Group S.A. (Luxembourg and Euronext Lisbon: ESF) announces the 2004 half year results for its subsidiary Banco Espirito Santo ("BES").  HIGHLIGHTS  --Net income for the first semester of 2004 reached euro 131.8 million, an increase of 14.3% (19.8% on a comparable...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Applied Biosystems Annnounces Major Expansion of Its TaqMan Gene Expression Assays Product Line for Real-Time PCR]]></title>
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